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Insects
Written and Illustrated by
Mrs. Love’s 1st Graders
April 2005
Fire Ant
By: Annmarie Franz
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It eats insects, fruit
juices, and sugar.
It lives in fields, yards,
and houses.
This common ant also
lives in rotten wood.
Ladybug
By: Ashley Garcia
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It eats aphids.
It lives in gardens,
fields, and forests.
By devouring aphids, it
protects the host plant.
Butter Fly
By: Austin Vickery
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It eats plants.
It lives in the
northeastern states.
Their wings are bright
orange with dark spots.
Cockroach
By: Baylee Molitor
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It eats just about
everything!
It lives and dark
crevices and buildings.
It escapes on foot into
cracks in our homes.
Stinkbug
By: Breeden Jones
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It eats juices of leaves,
flowers, and fruit trees.
It lives in orchards,
gardens, and crop fields.
It is destructive to
crops.
Giant Crane Fly
By: Brendan Madziarczyk
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It eats blood of warm
blooded animals and
nectar.
It lives in moist areas.
This is one of the largest
flies in the world.
Moth By: Connor James
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It eats leaves.
It lives in forests.
They begin eating
leaves and stripping a
whole foreest in one
season.
Cicada
By: Drew Diffendal
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It eats sap from trees.
It lives in northeastern
United States.
Cicadas burst out of
their nymphal skins.
Bee
By: Hunter Ceto
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It eats clover and
flowers.
It lives in woods, fields
and gardens.
They live in huge
organized colonies
headed by one queen
bee.
Termite
By: Ibrahim Share
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It eats wood and other
plant matter.
It lives in soil, wood
and moist wood.
They are the most
destructive species in
North America.
Katydid
By: Iliana Vargas
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It eats leaves.
It lives in leafy forests.
Katydids are not easy to
spot against a backdrop
of leafy branches.
Mosquito
By: Jacora Hamaker
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It eats nectar and plant
juices.
It lives in swamps,
ponds, water.
The female sucks blood
from birds, reptiles, and
people.
Beetle
By: Jake Swindle
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It eats leaves.
It lives in forests and
suburbs.
Larvae can take as long
as three years to grow.
Praying Mantis By: Jason Hargrove
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It eats insects.
It lives in brushy fields
and gardens.
Has a flexible neck, and
swivels it’s head as it
looks for prey.
Greenstinkbug
By: Jhoslin Prince
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It eats juices of leaves
flowers fruit threes
It lives in orchards
gardens.
It can cause much
damage to crops.
Ant
By: Jordan Gyovai
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It eats fruit juices and
sugar.
It lives in fields, yards,
and houses.
They live in rotten
wood.
Fire fly
By: Kenny Daniels
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It eats blood.
It lives near streams in
forests.
The eggs attach
themselves to stones.
Dragonfly
By: Nick Soucie
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It eats gnats, flies, and
mosquitoes.
It lives near ponds and
streams.
Males of this dragonfly
protect their territory.
Squash Bug
By: Sarah Fergus
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It sucks plants juices
and sucks blood.
It lives in gardens and
squash fields.
The squash bug has a
front wing that has two
parts.
Common Water Strider
By: Shannon Hoey
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It eats smaller insects.
It lives on surfaces of
ponds, lakes, and slow
streams.
They walk on top of
water.
Housefly
By: Shannon Carlsen
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It eats the blood of
animals and nectar.
It lives in houses and
farms.
House flies are hard to
swat because they react
to movement five times
faster than regular insets
do.
Grasshopper
By: Tyler Paulson
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It eats grass and crops.
It lives in grass and
open woods.
The sounds are made by
rubbing the hind legs
against. The fore wing
or by rubbing the wings
together.
Cricket
By: Victoria Mantel
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It eats crumbs and food
scraps.
It lives in meadows or
weeds.
The clear high notes of
the cricket’s song can be
heard day or night.